This year’s 2017 CMT Awards opened with a song in honor of Gregg Allman, featuring Jason Aldean, Darius Rucker and Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum taking the stage together wit guitarist and second-generation Allmans vet Derek Trucks for a performance of the Allman Brothers Band classic “Midnight Rider.”

“This is for the one and only Gregg Allman,” said Aldean, who traded off lead vocal duties with Rucker and Kelley.